The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-20

demonstrates more than any other
one thing has done in many years
the beauty of our American insti-
buttons as compared with those Of
our neighbors across the water.
When we compare his tour, the
method ofas its making and its
Accomplishments with what takes
place when the rulers of the old
world desire to 60 from place to
place, we have in deed cause to be
thankful. For instance, we are
told that when The Great
Great White Gar, as he is termed,
desires to change his place Of resi-
dence the whole line of railway is
patrolled for days previous by CO.'S
sack sentries who are never out of
saluting distance of each other
the track is tested and patrolled by
an army of railroad men, travel is
suspended, no person beng allowed
within the Gordon of sentries, and
amid these precautions, in train
surrounded by a trusted guard
armed to the teeth, the successor of
Ivan the Terrible and of Peter the
Great, travels in solitary state.
Even in law-abiding England the
travel of the sovereign lady is a
matter of no ordinary moment
suspension of traffice, all trains
side-tracked, line thoroughly tested
and patroled and a guard accompa-
nying.
But here in free America, the
chief magistrate OF this ''indissolu-
BILE union of indestructible states"
desiring to know something more
of the great country of which he is
the leading figure, actuated no
doubt by the feeling that prompted
the saying, now a proyerb, "there
is west beyond Chicago" engages
train for himself and his
wife { paying for it like any other
citizen plans tour of the coun-
try which is published to the world
for weeks before it is entered upon
| and makes that tour without so
| much as a sentry on the train or on
any part of the railroad, tour that
extends across twenty degrees OF
| longitude and eleven parallels of
| latitude, from the extreme east to
the great west; from the Twin Cit
les of Minnesota to the Gate City
of Georgia, and what is the resultf
Every where along the line of rail
way were seen, rot the blue-coated
sentries of Uncle Sans army but
the thronging multitudes of free
born American citizens gathered to
do him honor as he passed, If it be
no more than to raise 8 cheer, or to
fire a salute as his train moved
along, while his reception in the
great cities of the country where
the thousands, (which no man
can number" oqtpoured to greet
him, has been such as 40 man ever
before received. In st. Louis, as
if by contrast with the soaking,
drilling weather that greeted the
parade of the &. \. r., the sun
light greeted the president as if 8
| Higher Power" had cleared the heav-
ems of clouds and mist and chill
and strung the blue sky as q trium
phal arch" for his progress, and
this was the happy augury of the
whole trip.
Be it remembered, too, that this
is in no sense q political progress.
1t in no sense can be compared
with Mr.. Johnson's ''swinging
the circle when he took occasion
to defend himself from the fierce
denuncist;ops of maddened OPP
position. Republican and demo
| crat, tariff man and free trader,
prohibition and anti, capital and
labor, east and vest, north and
south, all have united TO do Mr..
Cleveland honor-the honor due
to the great Office he fills, to
The great man who fills that office
and, that the whole truth may be
known, to the beautiful and accom-
plished woman who is that mans
wife.
The result of this tour can
but be Of great benefit to Mr..
Cleveland and to the country,
| Gratifying to him it must be, 9TH
erwise he would not be human. He
will 60 back to his work at Wash
ington a stronger and broader
man to grapel with the dangers and
suites of government.
Not the least of the beneficial re-
suits of this trip is that we have
shown to the world, to socialism,
so anarchy both here and abroad
to the deluded followers OF the men
| now doomed to die in Chicago
the enduring foundation upon
which our institutions rests, firm
ly grounded not upon the loyalty
of brute force but upon the allie
glance of sovereign people.